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And the dead in Christ will rise first; then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left. So when did the Day of Judgment become associated with a physical rapture? Our mission has never been more vital than it is in this moment: to empower through understanding. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all.

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Then the way we travel changed. The way we conduct foreign policy changed. Our economy changed. Our government institutions changed. So many areas of life changed that it is difficult to adequately categorize them, much less catalog them.

Now try to imagine the U. Or 5 million people. Or 25 million people. Or more. Highly valuable and experienced military commanders and business leaders and medical professionals will disappear, perhaps in the middle of critical projects or medical procedures.

The impact will be catastrophic. Consider, too, the emotional devastation for people who suddenly and irretrievably lose a spouse, children, parents, friends, colleagues, neighbors, and other loved ones. Like so many Christians who came before him, Camping was possessed by the idea of predicting the end of the world, and talked ceaselessly about it on his radio show at Family Radio Network, of which he was president.

Like many would-be prophets, Camping moved the target each time he was wrong. After the October date passed, he just let it go. Even prophets can get confused. Why are Christians so obsessed with the end of the world? Some Christian denominations are more likely than others to be interested in eschatology.

The early church believed that Jesus would return very soon, even during their lifetimes, and Christians have been revising that prediction ever since. Judgmental Christians are easy targets for ridicule and disdain, and, to be sure, Christians have perpetuated some of the worst and silliest ideas about the end of the world.